Coronado Beach in San Diego tops this year's list of best beaches, compiled annually by "Dr. Beach" Stephen Leatherman.

By Rob Lovitt, msnbc.com contributor

According to Stephen Leatherman, aka “Dr. Beach,” there are approximately 650 major public recreational beaches in the United States. Only one, though, can be No. 1. What strand of sand earns that designation? This year, the honor goes to Coronado Beach near San Diego, which tops Leatherman’s 2012 annual list of the Top 10 Beaches in the country. Released on Friday, the full list includes:

At a recent Women’s Council of REALTORS® luncheon I attended, Leslie Appleton Young, Chief Economist for the California Association of REALTORS®, reported that according to Pew Research Center’s “Home Sweet Home. Still. Five Years After the Bubble Burst” 8 in 10 Americans agree buying a home is the best long-term investment a person can make. Rent or Buy is the question of the day.“…renters are hardly immune to the allure of homeownership, even in the face of the five-year decline in prices.Asked if they rent out of choice or because they cannot afford to buy a home, just 24 % say they rent out of choice.According to Pew Research Center, “17% of the current renters would like to continue to rent and 81% would buy a house at some point.”

After pouring over data since 2004, one would wonder whether or not the Coronado Shores escaped unscathed by the economic crisis.Life appeared to be good for sellers in the Coronado Shores in 2004 and 2005!A total of 65 condo’s sold in 2004 with 85 days being the average days on market and the average sales price per square foot was $924.76.In 2005, 55 condos were sold, with an average number of days of the market being 81.In 2005 the average price per square foot was $1,082.02.That same year the Coronado Shores broke their own record of highest price per square foot when 1760 Avenida Del Mundo #1105 sold in 40 days for $4,200,000, holding the record for having the highest price per square foot sold (since 2004) at $2,100/square foot....

11/11/11 will be the Veterans Day of ALL Veteran’s Days! Coronado, California will make history when ESPN airs a college basketball game between Michigan State and North Carolina. A rematch of the 2009 NCAA championship game—will be played on the deck of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier U.S.S. Carl Vinson. Berthed at North Island Naval Air Station, in beautiful Coronado, California the Vinson will carry a basketball court with seating for about 7,000 spectators, mostly U.S. military personnel. President Barack Obama, the nation’s basketball-fan-in-chief will be in attendance. For some high enough in the stands, there’s a view of the San Diego skyline across the bay. As a local REALTOR ® in Coronado I am thrilled that the town that I live, work and play...

Everybody loves Coronado and I love selling real estate in Coronado!What a great community to live, work and play in.A National Citizen Survey reported that Coronado, California has some of the most satisfied residents in the country.Coronado used the National Citizen Survey, a joint effort between the National Research Center and the International City/County Management Association, to produce a statistically valid study.Questionnaires were mailed to 1,200 random Coronado homes (mine was not one of them) and 357 completed surveys were received.Apparently the response rate (31%) was a typical response rate for a citizen survey.

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As one of Coronado’s more tech savvy real estate agent’s, I am excited to report that the City of Coronado has decided to stay relevant in the new age of social media and it is now on Twitter!Twitter is a social-networking and micro blogging service that allows users to send Tweets. A tweet, once identified as a noise a bird made, is now defined as short text messages no longer than 140 characters to “followers.”Coronado is one of the few cities in San Diego that regularly send out “Tweets,” short messages via a Twitter account.

Traditional communication methods are being consumed by social media in a quick-moving, ever-changing new world.Coronado is using Twitter to post information about upcoming city meetings.During the recent...

In 1989 Karl Strauss Brewing Company started the micro-brew movement in San Diego.With San Diego’s thriving, growing and well regarded microbrewery community, craft brews are to San Diego what wine is to Napa. San Diego might not yet have the reputation of well-known microbrew cities like Seattle and Portland, but it is well on its way with 8 breweries.Located across the bay in beautiful Coronado, is the Coronado Brewing Company.The Coronado Brewing Company offers quality handcrafted beers and delicious food in a casual family environment. The Coronado Brewing Company offers four year round beers, specialty beers and three Crown Series beers.If you are in downtown San Diego take the Coronado Ferry over and walk from the Coronado Ferry Landing to the Coronado Brewing...

San Diego County Wineries

While you are visiting Coronado, California be sure to make a day of wine tasting in San Diego. A little known secret is that there are more than 20 commercial wineries in San Diego County, with others on the way. In fact, one of the wineries is over 120 years old. “ It’s a renaissance in local winemaking,” insiders say. Many of the wineries offer tastings at a nominal fee and include a souvenir glass.

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